Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Cannot
Classes
Leisure
Member
Members
Pay
Class
Artist
Art
Leisured
More quotes by Cyril Connolly
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
Cyril Connolly
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly
No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
Cyril Connolly
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Cyril Connolly
How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
Cyril Connolly
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Cyril Connolly
We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
Cyril Connolly
In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
Cyril Connolly
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
Cyril Connolly
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
Cyril Connolly
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
Cyril Connolly
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly